Sometimes you can stumble across undocumented features in software. Oracle is no different. When reading Tom Kyte’s book Expert Oracle Database Architecture, I found out about the SQL function ‘Reverse’. This does exactly what it’s name implies: it reverses the result of your query.
select reverse(country_name) from countries
Which produces the following result:
Now ain’t that fun?
But remember: undocumented also means unsupported, so results aren’t deetnaraug…. ehm… guaranteed.
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